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...flying directly into the rising sun. Smudges of smoke from gunboats and ships on the Pearl River mix with a low-lying mist. Beyond, I know, is the Canton airfield...
Dreadful Solitude. In 1347 the Black Death appeared on the eastern horizon of Europe like a "thick, stinking mist." By 1349 the whole continent was sick and demoralized. At least one-fourth of central Europe's population died in the greatest disaster which ever befell the Continent. Half the population of England died. At Avignon the Pope consecrated the Rhone so that corpses could be dumped into it for Christian burial. In Italy Petrarch wept over "the empty houses, the abandoned towns, the squalid country, the fields crowded with the dead, the vast and dreadful solitude over the whole...
...mercurial people of Alexandria, who had shivered and shaken while Rommel rolled, smiled again and went back to their nightclubs. Those who had fled Alexandria talked of coming back "within a few days." Once more Cairo diffused through its screen of censorship a rosy mist of optimism-the same color as that which preceded the mist-shattering fall of Tobruk...
...fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...